Bermuda Schools and Education

There are a number of education schools in Bermuda. Some of them are public schools run by the government and some are privately operated. Bermuda Public Schools have three tier systems. Primary school, middle school and high school (or the secondary school).

While Bermuda Private Schools may not explicitly have such three tier names, all schools essentially follow the same structure to complete the required course curriculum. There are also many private and public pre schools in Bermuda.

A Bermudian child is required to attend school up to the 16th birthday. Therefore, one is required to typically go through primary, middle and at least 2 years of high school programs.

Today almost all schools in Bermuda are co-educational, except for Bermuda High School for Girls which is a single-sex school. Also the middle school program of the Bermuda Institute conducts single sex classes. Other than these, all are co-educational schools in Bermuda.

Coming to the education standards or quality difference between the public and private schools in Bermuda, I have talked to many Bermudians and expat families. In general, the standards of the private schools are known to be better than the ones run by the government.

Surveys done by Bermuda's Department of Statistics shows that there is a clear trend of increasing student admissions in the private schools although the fees in private schools are far higher. Also the public schools are somewhat limited to the children of Bermudians. If you are an expatriate working and living in Bermuda with your family, then you should first try the private schools for your children.

Listed below are all the well known schools and other academic institutions in Bermuda.

This is a co-education school run under the guidance of North American division of the Seventh-day Adventist Church. It follows the north American education system of Kindergarten then going up to Grade 12.